Investment News 05/2013 (Page 2)

Man sentenced for Phoenix-area investment scheme. A Phoenix-area man has been sentenced to 13 months in federal prison and may have to pay more than $900,000 restitution in a real estate investment scheme. A Phoenix-area man has been sentenced ...(May 4, 2013, MyFox Phoenix)

Phillips 66: Compelling Energy Investment

The Midstream segment which comprised 7.8% of net income in the first quarter includes the company's 50% equity investment in DCP Midstream. The Chemicals segment, which comprised 20% of net income in the first quarter, includes the company's 50% ...(May 4, 2013, Seeking Alpha)

A mother gets a payoff from investment in children

And you wondered in dark moments if you were pouring out your life for nothing, if your investment would ever pay off. “Well, it does. It pays off in these sons and daughters who come and go and do not leave you alone in the hospital. If all the other ...(May 5, 2013, The Register-Guard)

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Director Jauan Al Dhaheri Dies

Jauan Salem Al Dhaheri, a board member of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and secretary general of the emirate's Supreme Petroleum Council, has died, according to a condolence message on the ruler of Dubai's website. Sheikh Mohammed bin ...(May 5, 2013, Bloomberg)

Szymanski: Be ready to make investment changes - The Times of Trenton

Even so, you really should change your mind and be prepared to make investment changes for two important reasons. In the first place, and most importantly, having more than three-quarters of your investments in equities (100 percent of yours and 54 ...(May 5, 2013, NJ.com)

4 companies get 70% of capital investment benefits

The four largest companies eligible for capital investment tax credits received 70 percent of the NIS 5.6 billion in benefits in 2010, and paid an effective tax rate of 3.3%, according to a Finance Ministry report released Sunday. Though they were not ...(May 5, 2013, Jerusalem Post)

State panel seeks applicants for Investment Council

PIERRE – The South Dakota Legislature is seeking applicants to fill a vacant seat on the State Investment Council. The council oversees the State Investment Office. It is responsible for investing state money and determining investment policies. People ...(May 5, 2013, Sioux Falls Argus Leader)

Generous Vacation Is an Investment in Creativity

Generous Vacation Is an Investment in Creativity. Tore Leifer is a radio host and a culture editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Updated May 5, 2013, 7:00 PM. In Danish arts funding we have the “arm's length principle,” which means that ...(May 5, 2013, New York Times)

Since last year, the firm has signed several new clients seeking to lobby for EB-5: Los Angeles real estate investment firm CIM Group, the Colorado Regional Center, the New York City Regional Center and Portland-based Pearl Hotel Investors. In the ...(May 5, 2013, Washington Post)

Leaders Pore Over Southeast Asia's Investment Hurdles

"It's important for the government at the national level, at the local level and all stakeholders to understand the complexity and the challenges that we have to face in dealing with infrastructure investment," said Mahendra Siregar, Indonesia's vice ...(May 5, 2013, Wall Street Journal- India)

10 Investment Ideas That Yield 10%+

Jason Stewart, head of research at Compass Point Investments, a Washington, D.C., firm, likes AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT, $25, 13.0%), in part because 18% of its portfolio's assets are in non-agency loans. Stewart is also high on AG's execs ...(May 5, 2013, Kiplinger Personal Finance)

American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp Posts The Worst Quarter In Its Short ...

LONDON, May 6 (UPI) -- Uncertainty and inertia over long-term policies is hampering investment in alternative low-carbon energy in Europe, British lawmakers say in a new report. After eight months of study and hearing testimony, the House of Lords' EU ...(May 5, 2013, UPI.com)

British fund manager Legal & General Investment Management dug deeper into structural forces behind inflation in a presentation this week and reckoned a long-term stalling or even retreat of trade globalisation could also unleash higher western price ...(May 6, 2013, Reuters)

1 Long-Term Investment You Can Get Charged Up About

There aren't many companies that offer investors the ability for share price appreciation in nearly any growth environment. There are plenty of smart conservative choices like Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble, whose products are sold globally and whose ...(May 6, 2013, DailyFinance)

Indonesia's Growth Slows as Investment Eases

Declining investment has dragged Indonesia's economic expansion to its slowest pace in 10 quarters, adding pressure on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration to consider fine-tuning its policies to be more investor-friendly ahead of next ...(May 6, 2013, Wall Street Journal)

Rejoice! Your House Is An Investment Again

Good news for homeowners – your house is appreciating in value! The housing bubble (and bust) is over and prices are now poised to appreciate with the inflation rate, as they should. Bubbles occur in all asset classes and housing is no exception as ...(May 6, 2013, Forbes)

Tulsa billionaire backs investment in pre-K

This is Part Two of a feature on pre-K education; to read Part One click here. (CBS News) TULSA, Okla. -- George Kaiser amassed a fortune in oil and banking, and he rarely grants interviews. But he agreed to talk to CBS News about his passion for early ...(May 6, 2013, CBS News)

France prepares 10-year investment plan

PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande is defending the record of his first year in office and promising to unveil a 10-year plan to invest 20 billion euros ($26 billion) in infrastructure, digital technology and clean energy. After a special ...(May 6, 2013, MiamiHerald.com)

Overview Of The New 3.8% Investment Income Tax, Part 4: Rental Income And ...

Overview Of The New 3.8% Investment Income Tax, Part 4: Rental Income And ...(May 6, 2013, Forbes)

Buffett says economy on mend, bonds 'terrible' investment

"It's a lot easier for me to predict that ketchup will be doing well or Coca-Cola will be doing well in 10 years," Buffett said, referring to Berkshire's pending takeover with Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital of H.J. Heinz Co (HNZ.N), and Berkshire ...(May 6, 2013, Reuters)

Czech opposition wants higher corporate taxes, investment boost

INVESTMENT BOOST. The Social Democrats are much more in favor of European integration than the current center-right cabinet and Mladek would personally want to put pressure on the government to join the EU's fiscal compact, an agreement on budget ...(May 6, 2013, Reuters)

Transport stocks keep on truckin'

It was a remarkable achievement considering that FedEx (FDX), one of the largest components of the transport index, was not the main driver, as one trader pointed out on StockTwits. howardlindzon impressive (not fedex $FDX) New all-time highs for the ...(May 6, 2013, CNNMoney)

IRS Should Fix Net Investment Tax Proposed Regulations

The couple also has an investment long-term capital gain of $90,000, and interest and dividend income of $10,000. They have no investment expenses or investment interest expenses. Their married/filing joint AGI is $450,000, which represents the wife's ...(May 6, 2013, Forbes)

MBIA Settlement Doesn't Bail Warburg Out Of Ill-Timed Investment

MBIA will have to rise a lot more to reward Warburg Pincus for a spectacularly ill-timed investment in the mortgage-bond insurer, however. The private equity firm agreed to pump $1.2 billion into MBIA back in December 2007 as part of the insurer's ...(May 6, 2013, Forbes)

Delaware is basically a multi-boutique firm with each group having an independent investment process. Our group here in San Francisco is called the Focus Growth team within Delaware. We manage just about $20 billion in equity assets. Our group has ...(May 7, 2013, Forbes)

U.S. GDP Overview: Gross Investment

It should come as no surprise that residential investment has cratered after the housing bubble, falling from a little under $800 billion to a little above $300 billion. Also note that the overall trend of residential investment has been rising for ...(May 7, 2013, Seeking Alpha)

Only 150 of 3500 US Colleges Are Worth the Investment: Former Secretary of ...

Only 150 of 3500 US Colleges Are Worth the Investment: Former Secretary of ...(May 7, 2013, Yahoo! News (blog))

Can We Game Investment Cycles?

What we did was consider annual investment cycles of 12 months ending in every month of each year from January 1927 to December 2012. Thus, there are 12 cycles ending each year, for 86 years. We have summarized the results in Table 1. As the table ...(May 7, 2013, Forbes)

The Collapse of Public Investment

Here's a chart showing the inflation-adjusted amount of state and local government investment in the United States in blue and federal inflation-adjusted nondefense investment in red. It makes for a kind of terrible chart, since the blue line is so ...(May 7, 2013, Slate Magazine (blog))

Lew Urges Tax Changes, Investment in Research to Boost Growth

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew called for changes in the tax code, more investment in technology and stronger manufacturers to accelerate the growth of the world's largest economy. “To expand our country's manufacturing base, we will make our tax ...(May 7, 2013, Bloomberg)

Egypt Investment Is Collapsing as Citizens Turn Into Vigilantes

Net foreign direct investment was negative for the first time in 2011, according to the World Bank. Investment will be 15.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2013, the lowest since records began in 1980, according to the International Monetary Fund ...(May 7, 2013, Bloomberg)

Credit Suisse names UK banker vice chair of EMEA investment banking

Credit Suisse investment banker Sebastian Grigg has been appointed vice chairman of the bank's EMEA investment banking department after having spent six years at the helm of the company's UK investment banking team. Grigg's appointment takes effect ...(May 7, 2013, Fox Business)

Italian Aristocrat's Fund Sues After Soccer Investment Flops

Global Eleven, a soccer investment fund whose backers include the son of an Italian count, sued Swiss sports marketer Kentaro, saying it failed to return profits from matches played by five-time world champion Brazil. “The company is currently in ...(May 7, 2013, Bloomberg)

Coca-Cola officials said that the Florida Citrus Commission is working on an economic study centered on the company's investment, and that a preliminary draft shows that over the course of 25 years the expansion will add more than $10.5 billion — or ...(May 8, 2013, The Detroit News)

He will report to Gozali and Low, Credit Suisse said. Prior to the appointments, effective immediately, Low headed investment banking in Malaysia and Singapore for Credit Suisse, and Gozali led the team in Indonesia. Credit Suisse so far this year ...(May 8, 2013, Bloomberg)

Daily Report: Investment Firm's Golden Touch With Technology Falters

During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, made prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Google and delivered astonishing returns to investors, Randall Smith reports in ...(May 8, 2013, New York Times (blog))

Hussein al-Abdulla, a board member of the Qatar Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund, declined to identify the companies when speaking to reporters in Doha yesterday. The Qatari stock exchange, which includes 42 listings, is around a third the ...(May 8, 2013, Bloomberg)

JP Morgan: Erik Bisso New Head of Chief Investment Office For North America

J.P.Morgan Chase (JPM) named trading executive Erik Bisso as head of its chief investment office for North America, according to a memorandum to staff. Mr. Bisso joined J.P.Morgan in 2006 from BlackRock Inc. (BLK) and most recently led a segment of the ...(May 8, 2013, Fox Business)

The Worst Investment Of Warren Buffett's Career

We like to think of Warren Buffett as the wise, elder statesman of the investment profession, but Buffett too was young once and prone to the rash behavior of youth. And Berkshire Hathaway was not always a financial powerhouse; it was once a struggling ...(May 8, 2013, Forbes)

Ackman: P&G CEO may need to go

Bill Ackman, the activist hedge fund manager who most recently made headlines over his big short position on Herbalife, zeroed in on Procter & Gamble at the Sohn Investment Conference in New York Wednesday. The CEO of Procter & Gamble (PG) is one ...(May 8, 2013, CNNMoney)

Brazil sweetens return on highway projects to attract investment

BRASILIA May 8 (Reuters) - Brazil has raised the rate of return for toll road concession projects, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Wednesday, providing yet another sweetener for the private sector as the government scrambles to boost investment ...(May 8, 2013, Reuters)

Einhorn picks a familiar investment target: Oil States International

Einhorn is one of the hedge fund managers whose words are closely followed for investment tips. Most recently, Einhorn publicly put pressure on Apple to return more of its cash to investors. Last month, Apple did just that, and Einhorn said he ...(May 8, 2013, Quartz)